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Record: MDI41K09NE00079

General

Mineral Record Identification
Record Name(s) Kirby - 1968
Related Record Type Simple
Related Record(s)
Record Status Occurrence
Date Created 1991-Sep-01
Date Last Modified 2022-Sep-16
Created By
Revised By

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Iron



Location

Township or Area: Vankoughnet

Latitude: 46° 43' 16.59"    Longitude: -84° 14' 30.39"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 710778.866   Northing: 5177886.117    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Sault Ste. Marie

NTS Grid: 41K09NE

Point Location Description: Precise

Location Method: Conversion from MDI

Access Description: 1.4 kilometres west of the east boundary of VanKoughnet Township, 2.4 kilometres north of the south township boundary.



Exploration History

1960: 2 d.d. holes for 597 feet by North Tech Explorations Ltd.


Assessment Work on File

Assessment Work on File
Office File Number Online Assessment File Identifier Online Assessment File Directory
Vankoughnet-0012-C1 41K09NE0027 41K09NE0027

Geology

Province: Southern

Subprovince: Cobalt Basin

Supergroup: Huronian Supergroup

Geological Age: Paleoproterozoic  



Geology Comments

Dec 07, 2005 (P Beach) - ESE-trending hematite in veins in Huronian quartzite and slate. Five intersections include 14 feet of 10.46% Fe, 2.5 feet of 4.03% Fe, and 1.5 feet of 16.46% Fe, and 3 feet of 19.48% Fe. (ODM 1968 MRC 11 P 39).




Mineralization

Mineralization and Alteration
Rank Mineral Name Class Economic Mineral Type Alteration Mineral Type Alteration Ranking Alteration Intensity Alteration Style
1HematiteEconomicOre

Mineral Record Details

References

Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario

Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 39  Date: 1968

Author: Shklanka R.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:


Folio - Vankoughnet Township, District of Algoma

Publication Number: GDIF075 Date: 1997

Author: Sault Ste Marie RGO

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:


Publication - Sudbury Timmins Algoma Mineral Program, Project 1: mineral inventory of the Sudbury-Timmins-Sault Ste. Marie region, Ontario

Publication Number: GSC OF 1087 Page: 127  Date: 1985

Author: Rose, D.G.

Publisher Name: Geological Survey of Canada

Location: https://doi.org/10.4095/129999


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